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Just requested a quote for the Gold $0 deductible warranty from Santa Rosa, and got back these quotes (this is for a LEAF that is between 12 and 36K miles): 1. LEAF Gold Preferred 24 Month 40,000 Mile Coverage: $306.00 2. LEAF Gold Preferred 39 Month 39,000 Mile Coverage: $315.00 3. LEAF...

Great point. In case it hasn't been mentioned lately, Tom Saxton at Plug In America conducted a survey of LEAF owners. It's ongoing, so please take a moment to update the study with your own data: The Survey (in case you've never filled it out) The Update Form (for those who filled it out in...

Just read that Mitsubishi leased a lot of space in Huntington Beach: "Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America has leased 167,778 square feet of industrial space in Huntington Beach for its regional headquarters. The deal will allow Mitsubishi to consolidate three existing Southern California...

Do you have CHAdeMO?

Thanks to Gary for helping at the Plug In America booth Thursday morning. Overall it was busier than expected (busier than Thurs last week). We had several volunteers throughout the day, and we all met with more than 100 visitors to the booth. Swing by if you're at the Decathlon. We're just...

Got word from the Plug In America booth that they just reopened.

Plug In America has booth #112 inside the SunShot Pavilion. Some info has been posted to a Solar Decathlon thread here and another update today here. We can use more volunteers on any day of the event, but these are our most critical timeslots right now: Oct 10th 3p-7p Oct 11th 11a-3p 3p-7p...

Thanks for the press release, Boomer. Gary, thanks for the offer. PM me your email address so I can include you in the volunteer updates. If you could help during one or more of these slots it would be most appreciated: Oct 10th 3p-7p Oct 11th 11a-3p 3p-7p Oct 12th 11a-3p 3p-7p Oct 13th...

The organizers have been communicating with us regularly, and they haven't mentioned anything related to the shutdown. The public days start this Thursday. We're still looking for some LEAF driver volunteers to help staff the Plug In America booth, especially from the 10th-13th. If you're...

Plug In America is looking for some local drivers to help staff a booth at the Solar Decathlon in Irvine in October. We already have some volunteers, but we were just recently offered the chance to keep our booth up for the second week. So we could use more help for Oct 2nd-6th, but we...

Some good answers already. Some things to investigate/decide: What's the supply situation? Are you near a transformer or supply cabinet? What's the demand? Are people parked for a short while or for hours. What would fulfill driver's needs, L1@12A, L2@16A, L2@30A? L1 is sort of given short...

How did you determine they were "purposely not charging" and "not even pretending to charge". Chargepoint stations don't release the connector until you swipe your card. So it seems more likely that they did have an active session going. Maybe the car was simply done charging.

That article seems to be talking about general degradation. Both batteries and fuel cells experience degradation over time. Only fuel cells, however, can be poisoned irreversibly by a batch of bad fuel.

Couple more.. Powertrain longevity - Tesla Wins I say this because there's good evidence now that Tesla batteries last a long time, and fuel cells have historically been plagued by premature "poisoning" due to fuel that is not 100% pure. Accident Safety - Tesla Wins With any battery, you...

Nice design, very much in keeping with Manzanita's design style. Wonder if it's a new circuit design, or if it's perhaps OpenEVSE-based?